The third man was arrested for failing to register his vehicle as required by state law.

Dale Steven Bunker, 58, told investigators he'd owned the motorcycle for three years, but he never registered it to the sex offender registry.

All names presented here were gathered at a past date.

Some persons listed might no longer be registered sex offenders and others might have been added.

According to our research of Tennessee and other state lists there were 40 registered sex offenders living in zip code 37421 (Chattanooga, TN) as of February 17, 2017.

The oldest, 60-year-old Gordon Dixon, was arrested after he moved from New York state to Ooltewah and failed to register as a sex offender in Tennessee.

Bowman, who is homeless, was once located on the front steps of the Creative Discovery Museum downtown.

He pleaded guilty to sexual battery of a 16-year-old girl in 2012.

State law requires that all sex offenders report within 48 hours of establishing residency in Tennessee.

Hamilton County Sheriff's Office investigators discovered Dixon had been working at Chattanooga's Volkswagen plant for about three months, according to the arrest report.

Besecker admitted to authorities that she also took photos of the teenage girls. Besecker pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting in the molestation and received less than a year in prison as part of her plea deal, according to a 2003 story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.